Sphenolithus moriformis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SphenolithusPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Haptophyta
Life habit
planktonic, depth=surfacePBDB, for Haptophyta
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Haptophyta
Environment
oceanic,oligotrophic,marine,brackishPBDB, for Haptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 2323 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 6 of 2323 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 55 of 2323 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 520 of 2323 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 538 of 2323 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 942 of 2323 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 114 of 2323 occurrencesPleistocene — about 149 of 2323 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–65 Mya — about 3 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 9 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 28 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 33 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 55 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 49 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 76 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 84 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 101 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 122 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 168 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 143 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 192 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 219 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 174 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 167 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 170 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 175 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 169 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 181 occurrences61.66 Mya129 ka103 Mya0 Mya

2,323 occurrences of Sphenolithus moriformis on record, most of them in the Miocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

2,323 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

8 formations

Map — 9.55°N, 138.15°EMap — 9.56°N, 138.20°EButano — 37.42°N, 122.20°WButano — 37.34°N, 122.21°WButano — 37.27°N, 122.29°WKuma — 44.74°N, 33.88°EBlue Bluff — 33.14°N, 81.76°WShihmen — 23.91°N, 121.05°EQuilon Limestone — 8.97°N, 76.63°EMikindani — 10.26°S, 40.19°ECastle Hayne — 34.37°N, 77.84°W

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The named rock units Sphenolithus moriformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2,306 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sphenolithus moriformis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Sphenolithus moriformis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

542 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 2,000 sites for Sphenolithus moriformis, and this reads 240 of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

76 references

Each of the 2,323 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 64 further references are not listed. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Sphenolithus moriformis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Sphenolithus moriformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Sphenolithus moriformis was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itSphenolithus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bronnimann and Stradner 1960)